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Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: A Risk Assessment 2002
This document provides a risk assessment of various potential health impacts of climate change over the coming decades in Australia and, in specified instances, neighbouring populations of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Published by Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing - April 2003
There are large uncertainties in climate change health risk assessments. To address this, a range of climate change scenarios is used to represent a combination of the various intrinsic uncertainties around projections of future climate. Additional statistical uncertainties exist around the dose-response relationship between climate and each health impact, and the potential modifying effects of future adaptation.Due to the large file size of this document, it is broken up into sections below. Please note that blank pages have been deleted from these documents, some page numbers may be missing. The consolidated document is also available below.
- Sections 1 to 4 - Acknowledgements, Executive Summary, Introduction and Scope of Assessment (PDF 183 KB)
- Sections 5 to 6 - Impact of Climate Change on Health and General Methods (PDF 268 KB)
- Sections 7.1 and 7.2 - Temperature Related Deaths and Deaths and Injuries from Extreme Rainfall and Flooding (PDF 483 KB)
- Sections 7.3 and 7.4 - The Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Malaria (PDF 1324 KB)
- Sections 7.5 and 7.6 - Dengue Fever and Diarrhoeal Disease (PDF 777 KB)
- Sections 8 to 15 - Other Health Impacts, Pacific Island Health Issues, Adaption Potential and Vulnerability, Future Research and Public Health Response, Appendix A, Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations and References (PDF 240 KB)
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